Details, Explanation and Meaning About Birkhoff's axioms

Birkhoff's axioms Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

In 1932, G. D. Birkhoff created a set of four postulates of Euclidean geometry sometimes referred to as Birkhoff's axioms. These postulates are all based on basic geometry that can be confirmed experimentally with a scale and protractor. The postulates use real numbers as a prebuild block, it makes it closer to model introduction to Euclidean geometry.

Postulates

Postulate I: Postulate of Line Measure

A set of points {A, B...} on any line can be put into a 1:1 correspondence with the
real numbers {a, b...} so that |b-a| = d(A,B) for all points A and B.

Postulate II: Point-Line Postulate

There is one and only line, l, that contains any two given distinct points P and Q.

Postulate III: Postulate of Angle Measure

A set of rays {l, m, n...} through any point O can be put into 1:1 correspondence with the real numbers a(mod 2π) so that if A and B are points (not equal to O) of l and m, respectively, the difference am - al (mod 2π) of the numbers associated with the lines l and m is AOB.

Postulate IV: Postulate of Similarity

Given two triangles ABC and A'B'C' and some constant k>0, d(A', B') = kd(A, B), d(A', C')=kd(A, C) and B'A'C'BAC, then d(B', C')=kd(B,C), C'B'A'CBA, and A'C'B'ACB

References

  • A Set of Postulates for Plane Geometry (Based on Scale and Protractors), G. D. Birkhoff, Annals of Mathematics, 33, 1932

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